CHAPTER XIX 



•WINTEE PROTECTION 



The whole subject of winter protection resolves 

 itself into an intelligent understanding of what one 

 should protect froiA, the various conditions of the 

 winter weather and the habits and constitutions of 

 the things to be protected. People living in regions 

 of perpetual winter snow, where the fall comes early 

 and remains on the ground until well into the spring 

 months have the question practically settled for them 

 offhand; it is merely necessary to leave things to 

 Mother Nature who will take excellent care of them. 

 There is no covering which man can devise which 

 will equal in efi5ciency the blanket of cold, white 

 snow, as it protects equally from cold, sudden 

 changes to a higher temperature and sundiine, which 

 odd as it may seem, is really worse for a plant at the 

 winter season of its existence than severe cold, for this 

 reason — ^the sunshine stirs the plant to life, drawiag 

 the sap up into twigs and branches, then the cold 

 swoops down, freezing the imprisoned sap and ex- 

 panding it beyond the capacity of the plant's cells, 



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